New Releases by Jon Fosse

An elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, from the author of Scenes from a Childhood.

Trilogía es un libro hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar, y para el lector, leer Trilogía significa entrar en una profundidad desconocida. Con un lenguaje sencillo y un narrador único, Fosse nos cuenta la historia de una pareja de adolescentes que va a tener un hijo y que intenta sobrevivir sin nada en un mundo hostil. Con esta historia entendemos que significa no tener nada y la mirada despiadada de la sociedad , pero también revivimos de forma exquisita el primer amor, la experiencia de empezar la vida.on esta historia entendemos qué significa la indefensión y nos hacemos conscientes de la mirada despiadada de la sociedad, pero también revivimos de forma exquisita el primer amor, la experiencia de empezar la vida. Es una obra emocional que, desde la oscuridad de una situación extrema, nos ilumina. "Fosse ha sido comparado con Ibsen o Beckett. Es fácil ver en su obra la austeridad con la que Ibsen trata las emociones más esenciales, pero va más allá, porque su voz tiene una feroz simplicidad poética". New York Times

Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.

Nobelpriset i litteratur 2023 "Varför ville ingen hysa dem, kunde det kanske vara för att alla ju kunde se att Alida snart skulle föda, det kunde ju ske vilken dag som helst, som hon såg ut, eller var det för att de inte var vigda och därmed inte kunde betraktas som riktiga äkta makar, och som anständigt folk, men kunde då någon se det på dem, nej det gick då inte, eller kanske var det ändå möjligt, för något måste det vara som gjorde att ingen ville ge dem husrum.” Trilogin är Jon Fosses hyllade och prisade kärlekstrilogi om Asle och Alida. Ur de tre böckerna Sömnlösa, Olavs drömmar och Kvällning växer deras gripande kärlekshistoria fram, en både klassisk och aktuell berättelse om två utsatta människor som försöker finna en plats i världen. Boken fick Nordiska rådets litteraturpris 2015. ”Ingen skildrar den sköra kärleken som Fosse” - Vårt Land ”Fosse i toppklass” - Kulturnytt

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse''s writing on literature and theater--including the irresistable "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"--this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian," "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn''t Want to Become a Teacher."

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse''s drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters'' relationships.

The wind gathers, rising up suddenly. Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea – a few drinks, a bite to eat – when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering swell of the sea, bound together on an odyssey into the unknown. Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Nightsongs and The Girl on the Sofa, and his other plays in the following collections: Plays One, Plays Two, Plays Three, Plays Four and Plays Five. Plays Six is forthcoming in 2012. Oberon Books also publishes The Luminous Darkness: The Theatre of Jon Fosse by Leif Zern (translated by Ann Henning-Jocelyn).

From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate. In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle''s great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse''s vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter''s fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.

They have a child and life changes. He can''t go out and she can''t stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. "I don''t know what it is/ that always make something happen/ But it must be something/ because something always happens/ I don''t want anything to happen/ and then something/ happens all the same."